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Catching up on Mab’s Drawlloween Club posts:
Day 6: “familiar”, Day 7: “vampire”
Day 8: “tarot”, Day 9: “gorgon”
Day 10: “hellhound”, Day 11: “skeleton”
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I have lost myself, so to say. Acrylic on linen, 2019. Based on a 1906 photograph of Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimers.
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Some Good My Gentle Master for God’s Sake, acrylic on canvas, 2019
Source: Three skulls showing the effects of leprosy (middle images). Title references the text above a medieval illumination of a leper holding a bell (bottom image).
Lepers weren’t stigmatized in medieval Europe, and in fact were held in high regard. Their suffering on earth guaranteed them a place in heaven without having to spend time in purgatory first. The reason they were pictured with bells was because the disease affected the vocal chords which made speaking difficult. The bell was used for communication, not as a warning.
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Work in progress. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. 16x20”.
Source: “Patient with tuberous leprosy. Extracted from Leprosy In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects by Hansen & Looft, John Wright and Co, Bristol, 1895, Plate III.” - Wellcome images
Atrophy, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20″, 2019
source: “typical atrophy of the phalanges in leprosy.” - Wellcome Images
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Earrings, acrylic on canvas, 2019
“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest frequency and highest importance. Few physicians are incompetent to treat the disease successfully when its nature is apparent, but there are many who are unfamiliar with its most characteristic forms. The surest diagnosis is that which is based solely unpon observation; and it can be safely asserted that of the numerous and varied symptoms of Syphilis, there are none which point so unerringly to a specific origin as do its cutaneous lesions.” - George Henry Fox, Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis.1881.
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Posed, acrylic on canvas, 2019
“Case 27. Lepra Macula.— Aged 14 years. Presented herself in my clinic at the Charity Hospital, February 28th, 1888, with the following history: Born in the Fifth District of this city (Algiers) and has always lived there, attending one of the public schools.”
Source image (right picture) from Leprosy in New Orleans by Henry W. Blanc, 1889.
Pieces, acrylic on linen, 2019
Based off pastel portraits of wounded WW1 soldiers by Henry Tonks, artist and surgeon (middle images).
Posed, acrylic on linen, 2019 (bottom right image is of the painting’s first layer, bottom left and top right are finished)
Source image (top left) from Leprosy in New Orleans by Henry W. Blanc, 1889:
“Case 27. Lepra Macula.— Aged 14 years. Presented herself in my clinic at the Charity Hospital, February 28th, 1888, with the following history: Born in the Fifth District of this city (Algiers) and has always lived there, attending one of the public schools.”
I know this is a bit off topic but I felt like sharing it anyway.
Mr. President, acrylic on linen, March 2019
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